Definition of "expresso" [expresso]

• Variant of espresso. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The expresso and only the Blason expresso, is worth the money."
• "Having an espresso or "expresso" if you're the kind of person who says "supposably" instead of "supposedly" special named after you in San Francisco is a true honor, and it's the equivalent of getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, having a sandwich named after you at the Carnegie Deli, or being named in the Floyd Landis confession."
• "Dictionary. com not only says aloud the idiot's coffee-bar order of "expresso" but actually offers that as an alternate spelling of the real word."